Gandhi in the World and at Home

Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays

Gandhi in the World and at Home

Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

Description

Postmodern Gandhi brings together eight seminal essays on Gandhi by the Rudolphs, two of the most well known names in South Asian studies in the US. Divided into two sections, the underlying theme of the volume is the continuing relevance and importance of Gandhi and his ideas. The book argues against equating Gandhism with traditionalism and seeks to establish Gandhi's credentials as a postmodern thinker. In this venture the book looks to strong counter cultural explanations to articulate Gandhian alternate conceptions of modernity. The authors contend that Gandhi was a practitioner, an activist and a theorist. The volume also examines Gandhi's interpretation of the world and compares the inherent ideas in Nehru's high modernist vision and Gandhi's critiques of it to end with an examination of what development meant to each of them.

Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays

Gandhi in the World and at Home

Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

Table of Contents

Preface Part One 1. Postmodern Gandhi2. The Road Not Taken: The Modernist Roots of Partition3. Gandhi in the Mind of America4. The Coffee House and the Ashram Revisited: How Gandhi Democratized Habermas' Public SpherePart Two 5. The Fear of Cowardice6. Gandhi and the New Courage7. Self-Control and Political Potency8. This-Worldly Asceticism and Political ModernizationIndex

Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays

Gandhi in the World and at Home

Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

Author Information

Lloyd. I. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago.